ALLEGED SUPPLY OF GAS
BRITISH DENIAL REPEATED. [BRITISH OFFICIAL WIRELESS.] (Reed. October 16, 1.30 p.m. RUGBY, October 15. Folowing further reports broadcast by the German wireless, that Polish troops employed yellow cross gas mines, obtained front Britain, the War Office states: “In spite of the categorical denial issued by the British Government, which has not supplied gas in any form at any time to Poland, the German radio stations continue impudently to broadcast this baseless charge.” The War Office recalls that the first German gas attack in the last war was preceded by similar allegations, when, on April 17, 1915, the German Wolff News Agency stated: “Yesterday, east of Ypres, the British employed shells and bombs filled with asphyxiating gas.” The first German gas attack was launched on April 22, 1915. No gas for war purposes was manufactured by Britain until May. 1915.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 16 October 1939, Page 8
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